{"id":25191,"date":"2011-06-27T21:31:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T01:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25191"},"modified":"2011-06-27T21:44:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T01:44:25","slug":"rationality-in-spades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25191","title":{"rendered":"Rationality in Spades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are possibly the 5 best sentences you&#8217;ll ever read<br \/>\n1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.<\/p>\n<p>3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.<\/p>\n<p>4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!<\/p>\n<p>5.  When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work  because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other  half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else  is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of  any nation.<\/p>\n<p>Someone sent me this. I simply can&#8217;t find any argument with the ideas.<\/p>\n<p>There IS merit in striving to negate each idea, mind you, but the simple truth is that none of them works in real life&#8230; if you need to read about the failures then you won&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are possibly the 5 best sentences you&#8217;ll ever read 1. You cannot legislate the poor &hellip; <a title=\"Rationality in Spades\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25191\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rationality in Spades<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,5,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-politics","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}